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Cora Goodman
Cora Goodman

New York Times, Wednesday, July 26, 1967

8-Down : Stops.

Author:
Cora Goodman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 241 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 44, Cheaters: 20, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Cora Goodman has 50 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,556
Across
1
Not slack. : TAUT
5
Aviary sound. : PEEP
9
Many-seeded fruit. : PEPPER
11
Perfect quoits shot. : RINGER
13
Quitclaim. : RELEASE
14
"A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul." : EPIGRAM
16
Successful candidates. : INS
17
Fastened, in a way. : STAPLED
19
Japanese name. : ITO
20
Golf stroke. : PUTT
22
Companionway. : STAIR
23
A size of paper. : POTT
24
Siren. : ALARM
26
Wing: Lat. : ALA
27
Edge. : SIDLE
28
Scene in many a drama. : TRIAL
30
Strong. : INTENSE
32
Blunt speech. : PLAINTALK
34
Port S E of Naples. : SALERNO
36
Sails regularly between ports. : PLIES
39
Large packages. : BALES
40
Marriage vow. : IDO
42
Medicinal herb. : SENNA
44
Part of a scholar's degree. : LITT
45
Porterhouse. : STEAK
47
Pack. : STOW
48
Chemical suffix. : OLE
49
Palmed off. : FOISTED
51
Have being. : ARE
52
Flower part. : COROLLA
54
Spiced cookies. : HERMITS
56
Abrogate. : REPEAL
57
Cylinders. : SPOOLS
58
Precious. : DEAR
59
Resorts. : SPAS
Down
1
Celestial transmitter. : TELSTAR
2
Gibbon. : APE
3
Poisonous tree. : UPAS
4
Assays. : TESTS
5
Pibroch player. : PIPER
6
Geraint's wife. : ENID
7
Humpty Dumpty. : EGG
8
Stops. : PERIODS
9
Next to the last syllable. : PENULT
10
Gaucho's rope. : REATA
11
Having trust. : RELIANT
12
First toy. : RATTLE
13
River bank. : RIPA
15
Speck. : MOTE
18
Recantations. : PALINODES
21
Family member. : TRIPLET
23
Certain fingers. : PINKIES
25
He-men. : MALES
27
Retails. : SELLS
29
Tutelary god. : LAR
31
Spigot. : TAP
33
First. : INITIAL
34
Chichester, for one. : SAILOR
35
Made over. : ALTERED
37
Necessitates. : ENTAILS
38
Sounds of derision. : SNORTS
39
Political group. : BLOC
41
Pledges. : OATHS
43
Strikes with wonder. : AWES
45
Kind of energy. : SOLAR
46
Lasts. : KEEPS
49
Kind of market. : FLEA
50
Small quantity. : DROP
53
Unclose: Poet. : OPE
55
Old bird. : MOA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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